Joel 2:28

Lutherbibel

Und nach diesem will ich meinen Geist ausgießen über alles Fleisch, und eure Söhne und Töchter sollen weissagen; eure Ältesten sollen Träume haben, und eure Jünglinge sollen Gesichte sehen;

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Ein Heer von Heuschrecken Stoßt in die Posaune zu Zion und blaset Lärm auf meinem heiligen Berge, daß alle Bewohner des Landes erzittern; denn der Tag des Herrn kommt, er ist nahe, ein finsterer und dunkler Tag, ein bewölkter und neblichter Tag. Wie Morgenrot breitet sich über die Berge aus ein großes, mächtiges Volk, desgleichen von Ewigkeit her nicht gewesen ist und auch in künftigen Zeiten nicht mehr sein wird. Fressendes Feuer geht vor ihm her und hinter ihm her eine lodernde Flamme: ist das Land wie der Garten Eden vor ihm gewesen, hinter ihm ist es eine öde Wüste; und man kann ihm nicht entrinnen! Wie Rosse sehen sie aus, und wie Reiter rennen sie. Wie rasselnde Kriegswagen kommen sie über die Berge her, wie eine Feuerflamme, welche prasselnd das Stroh verzehrt, gleich einem mächtigen Heer, das zum Kampf gerüstet ist. Vor ihm erzittern die Völker, alle Angesichter verfärben sich. Wie Helden laufen sie, wie Krieger ersteigen sie die Mauer, jeder geht seines Weges, und keiner kreuzt des andern Pfad. Keiner drängt den andern, jeder geht seine eigene Bahn; zwischen die Lanzen stürzen sie sich und lassen sich nicht aufhalten. Sie laufen in die Stadt, rennen auf der Mauer, erklimmen die Häuser, steigen wie Diebe zum Fenster hinein. Vor ihnen erbebt die Erde, der Himmel zittert, Sonne und Mond kleiden sich in Trauer, und die Sterne verlieren ihren Schein. Und der Herr läßt seine Stimme hören vor seinem Kriegsvolk her; denn sehr groß ist sein Heerlager und gewaltig sind, die seinen Befehl vollstrecken. Ja, groß ist der Tag des Herrn und sehr schrecklich; wer kann ihn ertragen? Doch auch jetzt noch, spricht der Herr , kehret euch zu mir von ganzem Herzen mit Fasten, mit Weinen, mit Klagen! Zerreißet eure Herzen und nicht eure Kleider und kehret zurück zu dem Herrn , eurem Gott; denn er ist gnädig und barmherzig, langmütig und von großer Gnade und läßt sich des Übels gereuen. Wer weiß, ob es ihn nicht wieder reuen, und ob er nicht einen Segen zurücklassen wird, Speis- und Trankopfer für den Herrn , euren Gott? Stoßt in die Posaune zu Zion, heiligt ein Fasten, beruft eine allgemeine Versammlung! Versammelt das Volk, heiligt die Gemeinde, bringt die Ältesten herbei, versammelt die Kindlein und die Säuglinge; der Bräutigam gehe aus seiner Kammer und die Braut aus ihrem Gemach! Zwischen der Halle und dem Altar sollen die Priester, des Herrn Diener, weinen und sagen: Herr , habe Mitleid mit deinem Volk und gib dein Erbteil nicht der Beschimpfung preis, daß die Heiden über sie spotten! Warum soll man unter den Völkern sagen: Wo ist nun ihr Gott? Da eiferte der Herr für sein Land und hatte Mitleid mit seinem Volk. Und der Herr antwortete und sprach zu seinem Volk: Siehe, ich sende euch Korn, Most und Öl, daß ihr davon satt werden sollt, und ich will euch nicht mehr der Beschimpfung unter den Heiden preisgeben; sondern ich will den von Norden [Kommenden] ferne von euch treiben und ihn verstoßen in ein dürres und wüstes Land, seinen Vortrab ins östliche Meer und seine Nachhut ins westliche Meer, und sein Gestank soll aufsteigen und sein Modergeruch sich erheben; denn er hat großgetan! Fürchte dich nicht, o Land, sondern frohlocke und freue dich; denn der Herr hat Großes getan! Fürchtet euch nicht, ihr Tiere des Feldes; denn die Auen der Wüste sollen grünen, und die Bäume sollen ihre Früchte tragen, der Weinstock und der Feigenbaum, so viel sie nur können. Und ihr Kinder Zions, frohlocket und freuet euch über den Herrn , euren Gott; denn er hat euch den Frühregen in rechtem Maß gegeben und Regengüsse, Frühregen und Spätregen, am ersten [Tage] zugesandt. Und es sollen die Tennen voll Korn werden und die Keltern von Most und Öl überfließen. Also will ich euch die Jahre wiedererstatten, deren Ertrag der Nager, die Heuschrecke, der Fresser und der Verwüster verzehrt haben, - mein großes Kriegsheer, welches ich gegen euch gesandt habe; und ihr sollt genug zu essen haben und satt werden und den Namen des Herrn , eures Gottes, loben, der wunderbar an euch gehandelt hat, und mein Volk soll nicht zuschanden werden ewiglich! Und ihr sollt erfahren, daß ich in Israels Mitte bin und daß ich, der Herr , euer Gott bin und keiner sonst; und mein Volk soll nimmermehr zuschanden werden!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that I: Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 44:3, Ezekiel 39:29, John 7:39, Acts 2:16-18

upon: Isaiah 40:5, Isaiah 49:6, Zechariah 12:10, Luke 3:6, Acts 2:2-4, Acts 2:33, Acts 2:39, Acts 10:44-47, Acts 11:15-18, Acts 15:7, Acts 15:8

your daughters: Isaiah 54:13, Acts 21:9, Galatians 3:28

dream: Genesis 37:5-10, Numbers 12:6, Jeremiah 23:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 11:17 - I will take Numbers 11:25 - they prophesied Judges 4:4 - General 1 Samuel 19:20 - when they 1 Samuel 19:21 - prophesied also Isaiah 45:8 - Drop down Jeremiah 23:25 - dreamed Jeremiah 29:11 - thoughts Ezekiel 1:1 - I saw Ezekiel 2:2 - General Ezekiel 36:27 - I will Ezekiel 37:14 - shall put Daniel 7:1 - Daniel Hosea 12:10 - multiplied Joel 2:23 - the former Matthew 1:20 - in Matthew 11:3 - Art Mark 1:8 - he shall Luke 1:67 - filled Luke 3:16 - he shall Luke 11:13 - give the Luke 24:44 - in the prophets Luke 24:49 - I send John 16:13 - he will show Acts 1:5 - but Acts 2:38 - and ye Acts 11:16 - but 1 Corinthians 12:10 - prophecy 2 Corinthians 3:8 - the ministration 2 Corinthians 12:1 - visions Galatians 3:14 - might Ephesians 1:13 - holy 1 Timothy 6:2 - partakers Titus 2:6 - Young Titus 3:6 - he shed Hebrews 1:1 - in 1 Peter 1:12 - sent 1 John 2:13 - young

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass afterward,.... After the teacher of righteousness has been sent, and a plentiful rain of the Gospel has been let down in the land of Judea, in the ministry of John the Baptist, Christ and his apostles, and such a comfortable enjoyment of the blessings of grace in it, and the knowledge of God by it; and after the wonderful work of redemption wrought by Christ. R. Jeshua in Aben Ezra and Jarchi both say this prophecy refers to time to come; and Kimchi observes, that the phrase is the same with "in the last days"; and so the Apostle Peter quotes it, Acts 2:17; a phrase, as the above writer observes, which always signifies the days of the Messiah, to which he applies these words; and so do other Jewish writers, both ancient and modern o; and there is no doubt with us Christians that they belong to the times of Christ and his apostles, since they are by an inspired writer said to be fulfilled in those times, Acts 2:16; here some begin a new chapter;

[that] I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; not on such whose hearts are made tender as flesh, according to Ezekiel 36:26; as Jarchi; for the Spirit must be given first to make the heart such; nor only upon men in the land of Israel, a place fit to prophesy in, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; but upon all men, as this phrase frequently signifies; see Isaiah 40:5; that is, all sorts of men, Jews and Gentiles, men of all nations; and such there were on the day of Pentecost, when the Spirit was poured down upon the apostles, and the grace of the Spirit was given to many of all nations; though that was only the beginning of the fulfilment of this prophecy, which quickly had a further accomplishment in the Gentile world; and denotes the abundance of the gifts of the Spirit, both extraordinary and ordinary, and of his grace, and the blessings of it, bestowed on them;

and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; as Agabus, Barnabas, Simeon, c. and the four daughters of Philip the evangelist,

Acts 11:28

your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; as Ananias, Peter, Paul, John, and others, some in their elder, some in their younger years, Acts 9:10; though prophecy, dreams, and visions, being the usual ways of conveying knowledge, here signify that the knowledge of men in Gospel times should be equal to, yea, exceed, whatever was communicated to men in the highest degree in former times: John the Baptist was greater than any of the prophets, and yet the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he, Luke 7:28.

o Zohar in Numb. fol. 99. 2. Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 15. fol. 219. 2. Debarim Rabba, sect. 6. fol. 242. 2. Abarbinel, Mashmia Jeshua, fol. 9. 3. R. Isaac, Chizzuk Emunah, par. 1. p. 51.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass afterward - After the punishment of the Jews through the Pagan, and their deliverance; after the Coming of the Teacher of righteousness, was to follow the outpouring of the Spirit of God.

I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh - ^o: “This which He says, “on all flesh,” admits of no exception of nations or persons. For before Jesus was glorified, He had poured His Spirit only on the sons of Zion, and out of that nation only were there prophets and wise men. But after He was glorified by His Resurrection and Ascension, He made no difference of Jews and Gentiles, but willed that remission of sins should be preached to all alike.”

All flesh - is the name of all mankind. So in the time of the flood, it is said “all flesh had corrupted his way: the end of all flesh is come before Me.” Moses asks, “who of all flesh hath heard the voice of the Lord God, as we have, and lived?” So in Job; “in whose Hand is the breath of all flesh of man.” If He set His heart upon man, if He gather to Himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh shall perish together. And David; “Thou that hearest prayer, to Thee shall all flesh come; let all flesh bless His Holy Name forever and ever” Genesis 6:12-13; Deuteronomy 5:26; Job 12:10; Job 34:14-15; Psalms 65:2; Psalms 145:21. In like way speak Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah Isaiah 40:5-6; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 66:16, Isaiah 66:23-24; Jeremiah 25:31; Jeremiah 32:27; Jeremiah 45:5; Ezekiel 20:48; Ezekiel 21:4-5; Zechariah 2:13. The words “all flesh” are in the Pentateuch, and in one place in Daniel, used, in a yet wider sense, of everything which has life (Genesis 6:17, Genesis 6:19; Genesis 7:15-16, Genesis 7:21; Genesis 8:17; Genesis 9:11, Genesis 9:15-17; Leviticus 17:14; Numbers 18:15; Daniel 4:12; probably Psalms 136:25); but, in no one case, in any narrower sense.

It does not include every individual in the race, but it includes the whole race, and individuals throughout it, in every nation, sex, condition, “Jew or Gentile, Greek or Barbarian,” i. e., educated or uneducated, rich or poor, bond or free, male or female. As “all” were to be “one in Christ Jesus” Galatians 3:28, so on all was to be poured the Holy Spirit, the Bond who was to bind all in one. He names our nature from that which is the lowest in it, “the flesh,” with the same condescension with which it is said, “The Word was made flesh” , from where we speak of the “Incarnation” of our Blessed Lord, i. e., “His taking on Him our Flesh.” He humbled Himself to take our flesh; He came, as our Physician, to heal our flesh, the seat of our concupisceuce. So also God the Holy Spirit vouchsafes to dwell in our flesh, to sanctify it and to heal it. He, whom God saith He will pour out on all flesh, is the Spirit of God, and God. He does not say that He will pour out graces, or gifts, ordinary or extraordinary, influences, communications, or the like.

He says, “I will pour out My Spirit;” as Paul says, “know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16. “Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His” Romans 8:9-10. It is said indeed, “on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit,” but the gift of the Holy Spirit was the Holy Spirit Himself, as it had been just said, “the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word” Acts 10:44-45. It is said, “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, which is given us” Romans 5:5; but the “Holy Spirit” is first “given,” and He poureth out into the soul “the love of God.” As God the Word, when He took human nature, came into it personally, so that “the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in it” Colossians 2:9; so, really, although not personally, “doth the Holy Spirit, and so the whole Trinity, enter into our mind by sanctification, and dwelleth in it as in His throne.”

No created being, no Angel, nor Archangel could dwell in the soul. : “God Alone can be poured out into the soul, so as to possess it, enlighten it, teach, kindle, bend, move it as He wills,” sanctify, satiate, fill it. And “as God is really present with the blessed, when He sheweth to them His Essence by the beatific vision and light of glory, and communicates it to them, to enjoy and possess; so He, the Same, is also in the holy soul, and thus diffuseth it in His grace, love, and other divine gifts.” At the moment of justification, “the Holy Spirit and so the whole Holy Trinity entereth the soul at His temple, sanctifying and as it were dedicating and consecrating it to Himself, and at the same moment of time, although in the order of nature subsequently, He communicates to it His love and grace. Such is the meaning of, “We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” This is the highest union of God with the holy soul; and greater than this can none be given to any creature, for by it we become “partakers of the divine Nature,” as Peter saith 2 Peter 1:4. See here, O Christian, the dignity of the holiness whereunto thou art called and with all zeal follow after, preserve, enlarge it.

This His Spirit, God says, “I will pour,” i. e., give largely, as though He would empty out Him who is Infinite, so that there should be no measure of His giving, save our capacity of receiving. So He says of converted Israel, “I have poured out My Spirit upon the house of Israel” Ezekiel 39:29, and, “I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication” Zechariah 12:10.

And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy - This cannot limit what he has said, that God would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. He gives instances of that out-pouring, in those miraculous gifts, which were at the first to be the tokens and evidence of His inward presence. These gifts were at the first bestowed on the Jews only. The highest were reserved altogether for them. Jews only were employed as Apostles and Evangelists; Jews only wrote, by inspiration of God, the “oracles of God,” as the source of the faith of the whole world. : “The Apostles were sons of Israel; the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the other women who abode at the same time and prayed with the Apostles, were daughters. Luke mentions, “All these were persevering with one accord in prayer with the women and Mary the Mother of Jesus, and His brethren.” These sons and daughters of the Sons of Zion, having received the Spirit, prophesied, i. e., in divers tongues they spoke of the heavenly mysteries.”

In the narrower sense of “foretelling the future, the Apostles, the Blessed Virgin Luke 1:48, Zacharias (Luke 1:67 ff), and Anna Luke 2:36, Luke 2:38, Elizabeth Luke 1:42-45, the virgin daughters of Philip Acts 21:9, Agabus Acts 11:28; Acts 21:10-11, John in the Apocalypse,” Simeon Luke 2:27-35, and Paul also oftentimes Acts 20:29-30; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12; 2 Timothy 3:1, 2 Timothy 3:4; 1 Timothy 4:1 prophesied. At Antioch, there were certain “prophets” Acts 13:1; and “the Holy Spirit in every city witnessed, saying, that bonds and afflictions awaited him in Jerusalem” Acts 20:23. “But it is superfluous,” adds Theodoret after giving some instances, “to set myself to prove the truth of the prophecy. For down to our times also hath this gift been preserved, and there are among the saints, people who have the eye of the mind clear, who foreknow and foretell many of the things which are about to be.” So the death of Julian the Apostate, who fell, as it seemed, by a chance wound in war with the Persians was foreseen and foretold ; and Cyprian foretold the day of his own martyrdom and the close of Decian persecution, which ended through the death of the Emperor in a rash advance over a morass, when victory was gained . The stream of prophecy has been traced down through more than four centuries from the Birth of the Redeemer. One of the Bishops of the Council of Nice was gifted with a prophetic spirit .

Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions - “God often attempers Himself and His oracles to the condition of people, and appears to each, as suits his state” Acts 11:28; Acts 21:10-11. It may then be, that to old men while sleeping by reason of age, He appeared most commonly in dreams; to young men, while watching, in visions. But it is so common in Hebrew, that each part of the verse should be filled up from the other, that perhaps the prophet only means, that their old and young should have dreams and see visions, and both from God. Nor are these the highest of God’s revelations; as He says, that to the prophet He would “make” Himself known in a vision and would “speak in a dream,” but to Moses “mouth to mouth; even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold Numbers 12:6, Numbers 12:8.

The Apostles also saw waking visions, as Peter at Joppa (Acts 10:10 ff; Acts 11:5 ff); (and that so frequently, that when the Angel delivered him, he thought that it was one of his accustomed visions Acts 12:9,) and Paul after his conversion, and calling him to Macedonia; and the Lord appeared unto him in vision at Corinth, revealing to him the conversions which should be worked there, and at Jerusalem foretelling to him the witness he should bear to Him at Rome. In the ship, the Angel of the Lord foretold to him his own safety, and that God had given him all who sailed with him Acts 9:12; Acts 16:6-7, Acts 16:9; Acts 18:9; Acts 19:21; Acts 23:11; Acts 27:24. Ananias Acts 9:10 and Cornelius Acts 10:3 also received revelations through visions. But all these were only revelations of single truths or facts. Of a higher sort seems to be that revelation, whereby our Lord revealed to Paul Himself and His Gospel which Paul was to preach, and “the wisdom of God,” and the glories of the world to come, and the conversion of the Gentiles; and when he was “caught up to the third heaven, and abundance of revelations were vouchsafed to him” Galatians 1:12, Galatians 1:16; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 3:3; 2 Corinthians 12:1-7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Shall come to pass afterward — אחרי כן acharey ken, "after this;" the same, says Kimchi, as in the latter days, which always refers to the days of the Messiah; and thus this prophecy is to be interpreted: and we have the testimony of St. Peter, Acts 2:17, that this prophecy relates to that mighty effusion of the Holy Spirit which took place after the day of pentecost. Nor is there any evidence that such an effusion took place, nor such effects were produced, from the days of this prophet till the day of pentecost. And the Spirit was poured out then upon all flesh, that is, on people of different countries, speaking the languages of almost all the people of the earth; which intimated that these were the first-fruits of the conversion of all the nations of the world. For there was scarcely a tongue in the universe that was not to be found among the Parthians, Medes, Elamites, Mesopotamians, Jews, Cappadocians, people of Pontus, of Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Cyrene, Rome, Crete, and Arabia, who were residents at Jerusalem at that time; and on whom this mighty gift was poured out, each hearing and apprehending the truths of the Gospel, in his own language wherein he was born. Thus we have Divine authority for saying, that was the fulfilment of this prophecy by Joel. And the mighty and rapid spread of the Gospel of Christ in the present day, by means of the translation of the Scriptures into almost all the regular languages of the world, and the sending missionaries to all nations, who preach the Gospel in those tongues, are farther proofs that the great promise is in the fullest progress to be speedily fulfilled, even in the utmost sense of the words.

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy — Shall preach-exhort, pray, and instruct, so as to benefit the Church.

Your old men shall dream dreams — Have my will represented to them in this way, as the others by direct inspiration.

Your young men shall see visions — Have true representations of Divine things made upon their imaginations by the power of God; that they shall have as full an evidence of them as they could have of any thing that came to the mind through the medium of the senses.